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Sex-change judgement appeal
North West Lancashire health authority is seeking leave to appeal against a judgement quashing its decision not to fund gender reassignment surgery costing £7,000-£9,000 for three male-to-female transsexuals.
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Patients win right to use medical records access act in litigation
A court ruling has now made it clear that there is nothing to stop patients using the Access to Health Records Act - which was never intended to be used in litigation - rather than the standard litigation procedures.
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In brief
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped manslaughter charges against two doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children - a specialist registrar in paediatric anaesthetics and a registrar in haematology - over the death of a 12-year-old patient wrongly given an injection of vincristine into the spine rather than into ...
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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More than half of Northern Ireland's trusts expect to run out of money before the end of the financial year, according to a British Association survey which concluded that the province's hospital service was in 'severe distress'. The survey found that eight out of 14 responding trusts had lost beds ...
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Rushed deadline for three-way merger
Hospital managers in Kent have been ordered to merge three acute trusts in less than four months.
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Assessment centre's restricted role
Consultation has begun on proposals to create a Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre to evaluate new treatments and advise on their use.
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Environmental 'showpiece' gets £25.7m overhaul
St Mary's Hospital trust has been given the go-ahead for a £25.7m programme to replace the hospital's steel cladding.
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Mental health plan 'failure' exposed
The government's radical overhaul of mental health policy fell victim to inertia, short-term thinking and underfunding when put to the test in a two-day simulation exercise.
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Future Perfect: the findings
Change takes time - despite a great amount of activity, there was little transformation in services.
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Managers moonlight to make up for low pay
Half of NHS managers do not think they are well paid and one in 10 has a second paid job, according to a Unison survey published as part of its campaign for higher pay.
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GPs' retainer scheme 'offers model for NHS'
A £3m project to promote part-time work in general practice could be 'a model for the NHS', leading GPs have argued.
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Galbraith denies union claims of a recruitment crisis in Scotland
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has issued a letter to Labour MPs denying claims by health unions that there is a recruitment crisis in Scotland.
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Hancock's half hour
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock gives blood at the RCN's central London headquarters.
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Psychiatrists reject 'failure' of care policy
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has challenged popular public assumptions that care in the community has failed.
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'Urgent' Scots intensive therapy unit report due
Scottish health boards ordered to review provision of intensive therapy and high dependency units must report to chief medical officer Sir David Carter next month.
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Days like this
Anticipating Mrs Thatcher's NHS white paper... junior doctors' hours... nurses' grading appeals... suspended doctors...
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The icepick man cometh
New health minister John Denham is happy to be called a moderniser after a Bennite past. But will his appointment mean a leadership vacuum at a crucial stage of policy development, asks Patrick Butler.
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Milburn motors on
Although Alan Milburn was technically health secretary Frank Dobson's understudy, the new NHS primary care programme will arguably go down in history as Milburn's reforms.